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Colin Reaney
Australia 1952

The extended postmodern reader: The Appropriations of an Academic Vagrant
Colin Reaney, 1996

This is the third in Reaney’s postmodern series. The first two books were produced in 1995: The small postmodern reader and The big postmodern reader. The extended postmodern reader… is a snapshot of the present, and a point of view in an on going conversational method of argument: Words…….but not sentences. A performance piece:The extended postmodern reader is placed on the floor. The viewer / reader opens the book by lifting the cover, walking the approximately 3 metres to open each page. This is repeated for each of the five leaves of canvas, colourfully hand-painted on both sides with text such as, ‘set in….the fragmented institutional configuration of the academic left allocation where the new politics of difference – radical sexual….’. 11.0 x 149.0 x 4 cm (closed) 11.0 x 283 cm (open). Housed in box holder.
Ref:
Grahame, N (ed) 1996, artists’ books + multiples fair ’96, Numero Uno Publications, Brisbane. p. 63.